Cottonwood Creek Healthcare Community

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's second most favorable category is long-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this area. In the category of long-term care, we look at the amount of services provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more sophisticated services. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.02913 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing rating. In fact, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of D. The nursing grade includes many components, but the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we assessed was short-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's worst area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. With our short-term care score, we try to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.